The 10th annual Avon Heritage Duct Tape Festival is set for Father’s Day weekend, June 14 through 16 at Veterans Memorial Park. This year’s theme is “Decades of Duck Tape.” This year’s festival includes a special addition: a duct tape fashion show featuring celebrity guest judge Michelle Lesniak Franklin, winner of Project Runway season 11.
The Duct Tape Festival is set to open at 4 p.m. on June 14. The parade will take off the next day at 10 a.m. The parade will start at Avon High School and end at Veterans Memorial Park and will feature duct tape floats that “adhere” to the “Decades of Duck Tape” theme. This year’s This year’s Duck brand float was designed and created by students at Elyria High School. Modeled after a classic 1980s car, the float alludes to the “Decades of Duck Tape®” theme by incorporating film reels with images of different uses for Duck Tape in its design. It was created using more than 1,300 rolls of duct tape.
The fun new fashion show is sure to please fashionistas, and the grand prize for entrants into the fashion competition is sure to please “Beliebers.”
This winning Duck Tape prom fashion was designed by Michelle Lesniak Franklin
and partner Amanda Valentine. Franklin went on to win Season 11 of Project Runway
and will be featured as a celebrity guest judge at the Duct Tape Festival's fashion show.
and will be featured as a celebrity guest judge at the Duct Tape Festival's fashion show.
The duct tape fashion show and design competition is set for June 15 at 2 p.m. The show will feature duct tape fashions from season 11 of “Project Runway” and will be followed by a duct tape fashion competition. Festival-goers are challenged to create their best duct tape designs using Duck Brand duct tape. The fashion show will feature Michelle Lesniak Franklin as a celebrity guest judge.
Franklin, together with design partner Amanda Valentine, created the winning duct tape prom fashion in Season 11 of “Project Runway” using Duck Brand duct tape in an “unconventional materials” challenge. Franklin went on to win the competition. Entries in the competition will be judged based on workmanship, originality, use of colors, accessories, stage presence and use of Duck Tape.
Two lucky winners will earn four suite seats to the Justin Bieber concert in Cleveland July 13. One winner will be randomly selected, the other winner will be chosen by the judges. The festival will also feature classic carnival fare, rides, duct tape sculptures and crafts, vendors, music, and food.
Festival hours are June 14 from 4 p.m. until 11 p.m., June 15 from 11 a.m. until 11 p.m., and June 16 from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. Admission and parking are free. The first 1,000 attendees each day of the Festival will receive a complimentary roll of Duck Tape.
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